Carpet-beater



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Patented June 20, 1893.

ATTOHNE YJ,

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANKLIN L. GOODENOUGH, OF WINDSOR, NEW YORK.

CARPE'T BEATER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 499,987, dated June 20, 1893.

Applioationfiled March 10, 1893. Serial No. 465,404. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANKLIN L. GOOD- ENOUGH, acitizen of the United States, residingat Windsor, in the county of Broome and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Carpet-Beaters; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon,which forma part of this specification.

My invention relates to those carpet or clothes beaters made of a rod bent to form a whipping loop, the ends of which are brought together and secured within sockets in the end of a rigid handle portion.

The object of my invention is to provide a carpet or clothes beater which will combine. cheapness, strength and efficiency. To accomplish this purpose I provide the strengthenin g devices and peculiar featu res more fully described hereinafter and pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings: Figure 1 represents a rod of cane, rattan, or other suitable flexible wood bent in the form of a loop; Fig. 2, a view of mycomplete device in which part of the handle and adjacent parts are cut away to disclose the construction within; Fig. 3, a transverse section through XX of the preceding figure.

The rod of which the loop is formed, is designated by the reference letter a, and is com posed by preference of rattan, cane or other strong, flexible and light wood or fibrous material. In each of the opposite ends or extremities and extending longitudinally therewith, is inserted a steel wire I) centrally located in relation to the diameter of the rod and forming a core. This wire is made long enough to extend a short distance beyond the end of the socket portion a of the handle d, in order to strengthen the rod where its flexibility ends. These wires are made preferably of spring steel or other suitable metal which will have the desired amount of elasticity and strength. The handle is by preference made of light ash or other suitable light wood, and in its end are bored longitudinally two sockets or holes ewhich receive the ends of the rod when the latter is bent to form the whipping loopf. To hold the ends of the loop within the sockets, a wedge g is driven transversely through the handle and at a point intermediate of the ends, which are provided with notches 71 adapted to receive the rounded sides of the wedge. This forms a secure fastening against displacement. The end portion i of the handle is oblong in transverse section as seen in Fig. 3, in order to increase thelightness of the whole and to permit the loop to be more effectively applied.

By means of the foregoing features the entire structure, excepting the metal cores or strengtheners, can be made of wood, thereby rendering it exceedingly light and easy to manipulate.

Having. thus described my invention, what Iclaim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination with a separable and inflexible handle having parallel sockets extending lengthwise of the handle and located side by side, of a whipping loop made of a rod of flexible wood having its ends provided with metal cores which extend beyond the end of the handle, and a wedge inserted transversely through the handle between the contiguous ends of the rod and in engagement with said ends, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

FRANKLIN L. GOODENOUGH.

Witnesses:

J. N. WHEELER, R. N. RANDALL. 

